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Each raised on three dolphin-form supports, painted with alternating cartouches of flowers and a crest of a pelican in her piety above a coronet, above gilt brickwork, the ice-pails with two sea nymph handles, the interiors of the liners and the sauce tureens painted as faux marble
1434 in. (37.4 cm.) high, the ice-pails
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The crest on these dessert forms is almost certainly that of Edgeworth of co. Longford, Ireland. Lovell Edgeworth  (1776-1842) of Edgeworthstown House, co. Longford succeeded his father in 1817 and was high sheriff of Longford in 1819, when he would likely have entertained many guests.

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